What Went Wrong with the United States? Part 2
Counter Currents - May 1st 2024 9:00am EDTDetail from Constantino Brumidi, The Apotheosis of Washington (1865), in the US Capitol Dome. Image courtesy of Flickr. 3,139 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Who belongs to the nation Many countries explicitly define who the members of the nation are. This is, in fact, quite normal. The United States did so, in […]
The Nature of “Black Culture”
Counter Currents - May 1st 2024 12:01am EDTPhoto courtesy of GoodFon. 1,760 words As black violence increasingly plagues American society, even the most milquetoast moderate whites are beginning to concede that something is amiss with blacks. But most are yet unwilling to identify the true source of the problem and instead cite things such as “Democrat-run cities” or “inner-city violence.” Other, more […]
Reflections on the Confederacy and Its Relevance Today
Counter Currents - Apr 30th 2024 4:16pm EDTThe Confederate Memorial Day ceremony held in Arlington National Cemetery in 2014. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons) 2,129 words You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. — Robert E. Lee Several Southern states observe state holidays at this time of year to […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 583: Judd Blevins on His Recall and Pro-White Politics
Counter Currents - Apr 30th 2024 3:05pm EDT308 words / 1:01:38 Judd Blevins was host Greg Johnson and co-host David Zsutty‘s (Counter-Currents, Telegram, Twitter) very special guest on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. Blevins, until recently a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma, was subjected to a recall election earlier this […]
What Went Wrong with the United States? Part 1
Counter Currents - Apr 30th 2024 9:00am EDTEndicott & Swett, Nullification . . . Despotism (1833). Courtesy of The New York Public Library. 3,059 words Part 1 of 2 Classical liberalism tends to get a bad rap in our circles. There are reasons for that, of course. Although it didn’t turn out to be the final word in political theory, or a […]
The Worst Week Yet: April 21-27, 2024
Counter Currents - Apr 29th 2024 1:04pm EDT2,237 words “God Doesn’t Have to Be a White Man,” Writes Catholic Korean Woman The scuttlebutt that’s been circulating in “these spheres” over the past few years is that the most foolproof way to salvage the white race isn’t to focus on white people being white, but instead to resurrect Christianity, despite the fact that […]
Remembering Sam Francis (April 29, 1947–February 15, 2005)
Counter Currents - Apr 29th 2024 9:00am EDTSam T. Francis by Phil Eiger Newmann, 2021 1,095 words Samuel Todd Francis was born April 29, 1947, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He died February 15, 2005 in the Maryland suburbs of the imperial capital. Francis took his BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1969 and his PhD in modern history from the University of North […]
Saturday’s Livestream: Talking with Judd Blevins about His Recall and Pro-White Politics
Counter Currents - Apr 27th 2024 2:25am EDT197 words Our very special guest on Saturday’s livestream will be Judd Blevins. Blevins, until recently a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma, was subjected to a recall election that he lost — which was hardly surprising given that he was opposed not only by his Republican challenger, but by the Enid political establishment, the state […]
5th Meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, May 4: Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin
Counter Currents - Apr 27th 2024 2:00am EDTYou can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here. 182 words Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of […]
Counter Currents - Apr 27th 2024 1:55am EDT
You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here. 182 words Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of […]
Second Update on the Counter-Currents Movement Poll
Counter Currents - Apr 26th 2024 10:58am EDTFrancis William Edmonds, Taking the Census, 1854 614 words Last week and the week before, we sent out an invitation to everyone on our mailing list to take our movement poll. (We are sending out a reminder email this weekend.) Please check your inbox or spam folder and fill out the poll today! Yes, that […]
Whither Thou Goest, Diaspora?
Counter Currents - Apr 26th 2024 8:46am EDTImage courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. 1,566 words It seems that there has not been a worse time since the formation of Israel to be a diaspora Jew. The friends and allies that the diaspora has traditionally counted on are beginning to turn on them with the same determination and ferocity that gentiles have always possessed […]
Get to Know Your Friendly Neighborhood Habsburg
Counter Currents - Apr 25th 2024 3:22pm EDTEduard Karl Joseph Michael Marcus Antonius Koloman Volkhold Maria Habsburg-Lothringen (photo from his Twitter/X account). 1,652 words Eduard Habsburg The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times Manchester, N. H.: Sophia Institute Press, 2023 Unless you’re one of those people who reads the gossipy autobiographies of the British royal family, chances are it’s not often […]
A Family with the Wrong Members in Control: Orwell’s England
Counter Currents - Apr 25th 2024 9:00am EDTwords England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr. Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. — George Orwell, “England, Your England” Evening has […]
Katharine the Great: The State of British Education
Counter Currents - Apr 23rd 2024 4:30pm EDTKatharine Birbalsingh (photo from the UK government website). 2,205 words The Jesuits famously pronounced, after Aristotle, “Give me the child and I will give you the man.” This maxim, or a version of it, reappears throughout the history of education, and by the time it reaches Vladimir Illyich Lenin, it has taken on a more […]
Thank You, O. J. Simpson
Counter Currents - Apr 23rd 2024 2:27pm EDTBlack members of the live studio audience on The Oprah Winfrey Show celebrating news of the O. J. verdict on October 3, 1995. 1,095 words I think it was the outcome of the O. J. Simpson trial in October 1995 which first introduced me to tribalism. As a young man I had seen it around […]
Race Recap
Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 1:46pm EDTHank Willis Thomas, The Embrace 1,551 words On April 15, the day my bank check landed in the Treasury Department’s post office box to perhaps help fund the welfare state or assist in promoting multiracialism and transgenderism at home and abroad, I was running the 128th Boston Marathon — the oldest annual marathon in the […]
Why Buy When You Can Squat?
Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 1:05pm EDTPhoto courtesy of Sandor Csudai from knum.org 1,203 words Things are bad when shady characters move into your wealthy neighborhood, right into your house, set up shop, and then throw enormous parties for all the other peripatetic migrant-squatters passing through. This is what is happening in the United States and the rest of the Western […]
Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 2
Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 10:56am EDT2,359 words Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here) In the first part of this series, Socrates accuses Alcibiades of wanting to be a tyrant and argues that if he wishes to fulfill this ambition, he must study philosophy. Alcibiades won’t admit that he aspires to be a tyrant, but “if” he did, he wants […]
Earth Day Special
Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 9:00am EDT710 words Today is Earth Day, which has been an occasion to call for conservationism and environmental protection since it was first celebrated in America with bipartisan support in 1970, in response to the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969. Although in recent decades environmentalism has come to be identified with the political Left, taking […]
Saturday’s Livestream: Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson
Counter Currents - Apr 20th 2024 2:32am EDTPhoto courtesy of Picryl. 70 words Saturday’s livestream will be a solo Ask Me Anything with our esteemed Editor-in-Chief, Greg Johnson. Take advantage of this opportunity to pick his brain on current events, the movement, philosophy, or whatever else is on your mind. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3 PM Eastern Time, 8 […]
Update on the Counter-Currents Movement Poll
Counter Currents - Apr 20th 2024 12:00am EDTImage courtesy of GetArchive 653 words Last week, we sent out an invitation to everyone on our mailing list to take our movement poll. We are sending out a reminder e-mail today. Please check your inbox or spam folder and fill out the poll today! The purpose of this poll is to get a clear […]
Is There a Right Wing after Postmodernity? “Euronormativity” and Biopoliticized Resistances to the “Counterhegemonic” Left
Counter Currents - Apr 19th 2024 3:06pm EDTDiscobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. 2,899 words From a liberal perspective, there exists a logical (and also emotional) resistance to the use of concepts, terminologies, and ideas that are foreign to modernity, since for liberalism, being born detached from the latter, such […]
Stalin’s Affirmative Action Policy
Counter Currents - Apr 19th 2024 9:00am EDT1,940 words Terry Martin The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in The Soviet Union, 1923-1939 Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001 Empires are based on a core ethnic group with a well-organized military, a robust economy, and a functional government whose history of fairmindedness and even judgement is such that those outside the core […]
The Big Implications of a Small-Town Election
Counter Currents - Apr 18th 2024 5:44pm EDTJudd Blevins 1,431 words Judd Blevins was recently recalled from his position as a City Councilman in Enid, Oklahoma. This was not because of any malfeasance on his part, but because he has views and past associations which are deemed as “problematic” in Our Democracy.™ Blevins received 40% of the vote to his opponent Cheryl […]